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CAST
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CREATIVE TEAM
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Danyon Davis (Henry) his thrilled audiences as Puck in several productions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in many cities – notably at the Guthrie theater in Minneapolis, with whom Danyon shared a long relationship. Danyon played Paul in Six Degrees Of Separation and was the assistant director on the world-premiere of Arthur Miller’s Resurrection Blues, among his many experiences as an actor, director, and teacher at the Guthrie. Danyon was a collaborator and performed internationally with the SITI Company for many years, having originated the role of Wilson in Chuck Mee’s bobrauschenbergamerica. Danyon was an artist resident at the live/work space studio111 in Williamsburg, Brooklyn for several years, where he began working as an independent artist and formed The Abraxas Stage, a theater company dedicated to exploring heightened text, sign language, and dance. Danyon is presently apprentice to Moni Yakim, Head of Movement for the Juilliard School Drama Division. Danyon teaches private movement classes and is planning art making experiences in performance for families, as well as classes related to the writings of Joseph Campbell. Danyon and his creative partner Abby Gerdts will present excerpts from Of Rivers, Of Days, their adaptation of Thoreau’s first book, in Istanbul this summer. www.abraxasstage.com |
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Jodi Dick (Nanette) is thrilled to be returning to the Fêtes family. Recently she has been working on an interactive murder mystery circa 1873 Manhattan, (www.liveINtheater.com). Some of her favorite roles include, Helena in A Midsummer Nights Dream, Abra in East of Eden, Kitty Farmer in Donny Darko, and Olga in The Three Sisters. Television, Law & Order C.I. Jodi continues to be inspired by her work as a teaching artist for The New Victory Theater and Lincoln Center. She holds her MFA from The American Repertory Theater at Harvard University. www.jodi-dick.com |
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Corinne Edgerly (Simone) is delighted to be working with director Kim Weild again. Previously with Kim, she performed the roles of Mrs. Winemiller in Eccentricities of A Nightingale and Marina in Uncle Vanya. Other recent NYC credits: Aunt Sadie in All The Way Home (Transport Group received a Special Drama Desk Award); Tatiana in Barbarians; Rosita in Camino Real; Leona Green in Kariuki’s Notebook (La Mama); Old Alice in Islands: An Urban Archipelago; Mother in Woman Killer (HERE); Gongi in Mud Blossom (Walkerspace); Video Mom in Ex-Antwone (P.S. 122). Regional credits include: Simiche in The Grouch and Emilia in A Comedy of Errors (Shakespeare Theatre of NJ); Olive Allison in The Women of Lockerbie and Carmencita in Lee Blessing’s Whores (NJ Rep); Lil Miller in Kindertransport (Women’s Theatre of NJ); and in rep at The Theatre At Monmouth in Maine as Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest, Essie Miller in Ah, Wilderness! and the First Witch in Macbeth. She has also done voiceovers for major feature films. |
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Babis Gousias (Lartigue) was born and raised in Ioannina, Greece. He has performed extensively with the National Theatre of Greece. After many years of training and performing throughout Europe, Babis came to the U.S. to work with Anne Bogart’s SITI Company. While in New York, he acted in plays such as A Flea in Her Ear at Columbia Stages, Václev Havel’s Memo as part of the Havel Festival at Columbia University, and the New York premiere of Fêtes de la Nuit by Charles Mee. Babis currently splits his time between New York and Greece. |
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Jessica Green (Catherine) is thrilled to be performing again at The Ohio Theatre! International Credits: Dralion (Cirque du Soleil) Clown Giovanna, Le Rêve (Dir. Franco Dragone, Belgium) Clown Lulu/aerlialist/dancer, Archipelago (Teatro San Gines, Chile) Mamasita, Blind Tango Dancer. NYC/Regional credits: Barnum (Asolo Theatre/Maltz Jupiter Theatre) Dream Charity/Trapeze Girl, Revolution of Forms (Dir. Robert Wilson) Ensemble, 365 days/365 plays (The Public Theatre), St. Joan of the Stockyards (PS122) Little Joey/Martha, Performer with Tami Stronach Dance Company since 1997 and Co-Artistic Director/Actor/Dancer with internationally acclaimed, Drama Desk Nominated, NY based The Flying Machine 1997-2007: Sad Since Tuesday (BEST of NY Intl Fringe Festival), Petruschka (Carnegie Hall), The Escapist (Galapagos, Soho REP), Archipelago (Galapagos, Soho REP), Utopians (Ohio Theater), Signals of Distress (Soho REP, National Tour), Frankenstein (National Tour). TV: Law & Order SVU. BFA in Dance: SUNY Purchase. www.jessicamgreen.com |
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Ana Grosse (Yvette) grew up in Argentina in a French speaking family. She then lived in Australia for many years where she worked as a performer before moving to New York in 2007. New York theater credits include: The House of Bernarda Alba (Spanish Theatre Repertory), The Coupling Heuristic(Manhattan Theatre Source/dir. Mimi McGurl), Enemies, A Love Story (Steps Theatre/dir. Slava Stepnov), Phaedra's Dilemma(Impact Theatre/dir. Fay Simpson), The Exonerated (Foster Street Productions), Poison (Atlantic Stage 2) and The Virtuous Burglar (Red Carpet Theater). International credits include physical theater productions in the Adelaide International Arts Festival, the Adelaide Fringe Festival and the Next Wave Festival (Australia), and in the Mercosur International Theater Festival (Argentina). Ana appeared in the film Positions of Power (Adelaide Film Festival), was a founding member of the Bare Bones Collective, and created three dance theater shows - Awaiting, Caminos, and Returning Again (Australia). She received a Bachelor of Dance Performance from the Adelaide College of the Arts (Australia), and is a graduate of the Atlantic Acting School Conservatory (New York). |
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Christine Rebecca Herzog (Grace Thalia) is excited to be included in the in Fetes de la Nuit cast, her past roles include Julie in Julie (miss Julie) with Scena Theatre company and was taken to Slovenski Gledaliski Festival Maribo, Slovenia. In addition with Scena Theatre she played Helen of Troy in Orestes in the Piramttiki Skini Festival Thessaloniki, Greece as well as the role of Queen Margaret in Ivona Princess of Burgundia in the Konfrontacje Theatre Festival Lublin, Poland. New York credits include the role of Aurora in Aurora Leigh and Clair Chance in The Best Things in Life are Free both with the Studio Theater Ensemble workshop. Getting to her French roots that fit so nicely with the current project she spent five years working with a French theater company based in the Le Coq style in Washington, DC called Le Neon where she portrayed such roles as Josian in The man who laughs, Lise/Mart in Cyrano De Bergerac , Tibert in Renard the Fox, and had the once in a life time opportunity to be taught by the great Marcel Marceau. |
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Itsuko Higashi (Grace Aglaea) is a native of Japan where she trained extensively in dance, piano and singing. After earning her BS degree in nutrition in Japan, she came to New York City to pursue a career in dance. She has worked with Jamie Bishton, Jessica Bonenfant, Cha-Lee Chen, Pat Catterson, Joao Carvalho, Sean Curran, and Sharon Manuel among others, at a variety of theaters including the Merce Cunningham Studio, Pace Downtown Theater, the Construction Company, Dance New Amsterdam, Tribeca Performing Arts Center and Teresa Lang Theater. Itsuko also presented her choreography at Marymount Manhattan College where she earned her BFA in dance and the Martha Graham School of Contenporary Dance where she completed the Professional Training Program. |
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Jubil Khan (Grace Euphrosyne) a Native of Philadelphia, is excited to be participating in this thrilling play, Fêtes de la Nuit. Jubil’s background is primarily in dance, having received her BFA in Dance from Temple University. During her time at Temple, she participated with the renowned African American Deaf Dance Company, Wildzappers, as well as the West African Dance Company, KanKouran, based in Washington DC. Steeped in the African and Hip Hop Dance form, Jubil decided to expand her dance training in the modern and ballet technique by training with several dance schools - Kariamu Welsh African Dance Technique (Umfundalai), Philadelphia Dance School (Philadanco), Ione Nash African Dance Ensemble, University of the Arts, and Koresh Studio. In 2000, Jubil won the Miss Black Deaf America Pageant title and is looking toward building a Dance Company for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing in the future. |
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Kyle Knauf (Jean-François) is very happy to reprise his role as Jean Francios and party at night again with such a talented group. Kyle Knauf played the lead in "Live Broadcast" and “Not Dark Yet,” productions in the New York International Fringe Festival. Also, NU Classical Theater’s "Replikas of Apocalypsis Cum Figuris & The Constant Prince" for the undergroundzero festival. He has performed in New York Classical Theaters Loves Labours Lost, Classic Stage Companys Young Company version of Tartuffe and Scapin, and the Flea Theaters Obie winning production of Benten Kozo as Benten. Internationally he took part in two festivals: TheSchauspiel Festival in Essen, Germay with Comedy of Errors and The Arezzo Festival in Italy with Scapin. Regional credits include: Romeo Y Julieta (Quantum Theater, CA), Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare by the Sea, CA), Naked Angels (Sacred Fools, CA). Other projects include: Fêtes de la Nuit – Charles Mee (Columbia Stages), I-Claudius (Theater Askew) and various independent films including Twigged, Katrina and Trifon based on Turgenev's The District Doctor. Kyle is a graduate of Columbia University's MFA acting program. Thank you Megan, Sayre and Quinlan for supporting this French exchange program. www.kyleknauf.biz |
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Khris Lewin (Roland) is very pleased to be working on Fêtes de la Nuit. Most recently, Khris performed the role of Tristan in Shipwreck at Triskelion in Williamsburg. This past summer, he played Macbeth at Nebraska Shakespeare, and Cyrano de Bergerac at TheatreWorks in Colorado Springs. Work in New York includes world premieres such as Deb Margolin’s Time Is the Mercy of Eternity, with Lisa Kron, at the West End Theatre; the critically acclaimed Stomp and Shout! at the 45th Street Theatre; the American premiere of Robin Soan's Talking to Terrorists for the Culture Project; as well as Selected Shorts at Symphony Space; Richard Caliban's Teatro Slovak at HERE and Galapagos; a new translation of Brecht's Private Life of the Master Race with Roust Theatre Company; and Happy Endings with Blue Coyote Theater Group. His film work includes the independent shorts The Eyes Have It, First Date, Isn’t She and the recurring character Jim Cramer on CBS’ wallstrip.com. His website is www.khrislewin.com. |
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Donnie Mather (Michel/Assistant Director) In previous collaborations with Director Kim Weild, Mather created & performed Kaddish (or The Key in the Window) based on the poem by Allen Ginsberg (NY Fringe), played the title role in Uncle Vanya, and appeared in the original NY Premiere of Charles Mee’s Fêtes de la Nuit. Also with Mr. Mee, Trojan Women A Love Story (Directed by Tina Landau). As an Associate of SITI Company, Mather performed in Seven Deadly Sins and Lilith (both at NYC Opera), and Nicholas & Alexandra with Placido Domingo at Los Angeles Opera (directed by Anne Bogart). With Director Leon Ingulsrud, Mather played Banquo in Macbeth (SITI Company at Swine Palace Theater) and created & performed A Show Of Force (NY Fringe, Manizales Theatre Festival, Hope College, & Hudson Guild). Other credits include: Antony & Cleopatra, The Comedy Of Errors, The Merchant Of Venice, Two Gentlemen Of Verona (Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey); I, CLAUDIUS (Theatre Askew); A Mouthful Of Birds (Rude Mechanicals Theatre); and American Interference (WOW Company). Mather has been an instructor of the Viewpoints Training and the Suzuki Method for over 10 years in universities and theaters throughout the US, Puerto Rico, Colombia, and Brazil. |
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John McGinty (Pierre) is thrilled to be part of the production. He was seen from National Tour: Robin Hood (Cleveland SignStage Theatre). Regional Theatre: Pippin (Mark Taper Forum/Deaf West), Etta Jenks (Boston Studio Theatre). Television: Law & Order: Criminal Intent. Film: Conned, Love Signs. Recent graduate from Northeastern University. Other: National Theatre of the Deaf. A proud member of Actors' Equity. Many thanks to his family and friends for their guidance and support. |
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Luis Moreno (Barbesco) with Kim Weild - Hamm in Endgame, Barbesco in Fêtes de la Nuit (Columbia Stages). New York: The Age of Iron (Classic Stage Company), Tartuffe, The Misanthrope (CSC), 3 Sisters (Nature Theater of Oklahoma), Into the Hazard - Henry 5 (New Feet/Walkerspace) Food For Fish (The Kraine), Uncivil Wars (PPG/37 Arts), 365 Days/Plays (Lightbox/Public Theater), Uncle Vanya (13th Street Theatre), Auto Da Fe (International WOW/Prelude), Straight Up Vampire (Ars Nova). Regional: Moby Dick Rehearsed and The Tempest (The Acting Company), Anna in the Tropics (Capital Rep). Luis narrates books for Recorded Books LLC. MFA, Columbia University, BA, Bard College. |
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Mirabelle Ordinaire (Margot/Dramaturg) was born and raised in Paris and moved to New York for her theatre PhD at Columbia University, which she will complete in May 2011. She started dancing flamenco and tango in Paris as a teenager, and pursued her training in Spain, Argentina (Claudio & Melina, Julio Balmaceda), and in New York with Jose Molina and Mariano Parra (flamenco), Mariana Fresno and Oliver Kolker (tango), and Sabrina Pillars (pilates). Prior to directing her first play in NYC, Pinter's Dumb Waiter (Arthur Seelen theatre, February 2007), she assisted Robert Wilson on La Fontaine's Fables (Comédie française) and Andrei Serban on Verdi's Otello (Opéra Bastille). Her upcoming projects include directing two one-woman operas by Poulenc and Llorca, and directing and dancing in a flamenco show around Garcia Lorca's New York poetry. She is thrilled to be part of Fêtes de la Nuit again, and to celebrate her third collaboration with Kim. |
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Rumi Oyama (Sumiko) is thrilled to work with Kim Weild and be part of this fantastic project, Fêtes de la Nuit. Her past credits include The King and I (Angel George/Ensemble, Carousel Dinner Theater), Beauty and the Beast (Fairy, Player’s Theater), Miss Saigon (Yvette/Ensemble, Gateway Playhouse), The Lion King (Dancer, Shiki Theater Company, Tokyo and Nagoya), The Glass Menagerie (Laura, Here & There Theater Company, Tokyo), and several musicals and dance shows in Japan. Rumi recently performed as a dancer in the Broadway workshop, Bruce Lee: Journey to the West (Elephant Eye Productions, dir. Bartlett Sher). Special thanks and love to her great friends, teachers, and family. www.rumioyama.com |
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Alexandria Wailes (Sophie) credits include Mother Courage and Her Children (The Public); Pippin (Mark Taper Forum/Deaf West); Big River (Roundabout/Deaf West); Children Of A Lesser God (Keen Company); Big River Nationwide tour; Sleeping Beauty Wakes (Kirk Douglas Theatre); Big River (Mark Taper Forum/Deaf West); The Wild Boys (Australia Theater Of The Deaf); Love Person (Mixed Blood Theatre); Aurora Leigh (Ensemble Studio Theatre); This Island Alone (Vineyard Playhouse). Television: Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Nurse Jackie, Conviction Films: Theatre of War, Freedom Is Not Free, Always Chasing Love Ms. Wailes received a 2007 LA Ovation Award Nomination for Sleeping Beauty Wakes (Best Lead Female In A Musical) and is a Tony Honoree recipient for the Broadway revival of Big River (Ensemble). A proud member of Actor’s Equity. |
CREATIVE TEAM
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Charles Mee (Playwright) has written Big Love and True Love and First Love, bobrauschenbergamerica and Hotel Cassiopeia, Orestes 2.0 and Trojan Women A Love Story, and Summertime and Wintertime among other plays — all of them available on the internet at www.charlesmee.org.
His plays have been performed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, American Repertory Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, the Public Theatre, Lincoln Center, the Humana Festival, Steppenwolf, and other places in the United States as well as in Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam, London, Brussels, Vienna, Istanbul and elsewhere. Among other awards, he is the recipient of the gold medal for lifetime achievement in drama from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, two Obie, of a Laura Pels Award, and of the Richard B. Fisher Award. He is also the author of a number of books of history (Meeting at Potsdam, The Marshall Plan, The End of Order) that have been selections of the Book of the Month Club and the History Book Club. He is the former editor-in-chief of Horizon magazine, a magazine of history, art, literature, and the fine arts. And he is a lifetime trustee of the Washington think tank, The Urban Institute. His work is made possible by the support of Jeanne Donovan Fisher and Richard B. Fisher. |
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Kim Weild (Director) Ensemble based and deeply collaborative Weild's work is
thoroughly grounded in narrative, honoring text while weaving matrices of
movement, sound and images. She is steadfastly committed to the training and
development of versatile, imaginative, knowledgeable, disciplined and dedicated
theatre artists. Two hallmarks of her work are radical inclusion and cross
cultural collaboration.
For ten years Kim was a student at The School of American Ballet and performed with The New York City Ballet. Her interest in the intersection between theatre and dance began there. She first developed movement oriented theatre pieces in 1986 when she worked as an actor with Robert Wilson in the Richard Strauss opera Salome performed at Teatro alla Scala in Milan. She also collaborated closely with Beatrice Lees from 1988 until her death in 1995. Ms. Lees was a sister of Viola Spolin and herself a pioneer in improvisational dance movement. This partnership strengthened and deepened Kim’s relationship of the uses of movement in theatre. In 1998 she was asked by Anne Bogart to begin teaching both Viewpoints and the Suzuki Method of Actor Training on the west coast and by 2000, she co-founded and was Artistic Director of a Los Angeles-based company committed to supporting and strengthening the theatre community through ongoing year round training sessions in Suzuki, Viewpoints and Composition as well as summer training sessions with SITI Co. During its existence, over 1,000 theatre artists participated in the company’s workshops, inspiring the creation of new works and the founding of theatre companies not only in the United States but also around the world Productions include: Uncle Vanya (Official selection Prague Quadrennial), Kaddish by Allen Ginsberg (NY International Fringe Festival), The Good Woman of Setzuan (w/2 Star Symphony), My Fair Lady (Cape Cod times called it “pitch-pefect”), Eccentricities of a Nightingale, Endgame, Charles Mee’s Fêtes de la Nuit (Riverside Theater), Safe Home (CAP 21-World Premiere), Andrea Lepcio’s A Peddler’s Tale: Buttons, Guts and Bluetooth (The Women’s Project), Paradise Now(conceived/directed by Weild for Williamstown Theater Festival), FreeRange Thanksgiving (Foundry Theatre) and A Decade of Dreams: Celebrating the Music of the Young People’s Chorus of New York (Carnegie Hall). She is actively engaged in developing new work for the stage and directs readings at Lincoln Center Theater, Primary Stages, NY Theater Workshop, Ma-Yi 2 G, New Georges, Epiphany Ensemble and Columbia Stages. She is associate director to Michael Blakemore having worked with him most recently on the Broadway revival of Blithe Spirit starring Angela Lansbury and previously on Terrence McNally’s Deuce (Lansbury/Seldes) and Mark Twain/David Ives’ Is He Dead? She has also associate directed for Tina Landau on Tarell McCraney’s WIG OUT! at the Vineyard Theatre and Charles Mee’s Iphigenia 2.0 at The Signature Theater. Weild continues to teach directing, Viewpoints, Suzuki and Composition both here and abroad. In the U.S. she has taught at: Columbia University, Yale University, Barnard College, The O’Neill Center-NTI, Atlantic Theater School, Primary Stages, New Actors Workshop, CalArts, UC Irvine, University of Houston, CalState Fullerton, CalState Riverside, La Jolla Playhouse, About Productions, Sowelu Ensemble, Stone Soup, Integrity Productions, National Theater Workshop of the Handicapped, ACES-ECA and at LACHSA where she held the David Parsons Chair. Kim is the recipient of a Kennedy
Center Directing Fellowship (design program with Ming Cho Lee and Constance
Hoffman), a Shubert Fellow, the 2006 Williamstown Theatre Festival Foeller Fellow, a Women’s Project alumna, New Georges
Affiliated Artist, Sponsored Artist with The Field and member of SDC. BFA NYU Tisch School of the Arts. MFA Columbia University. |
| Matt Wilson (Assistant to the Director) is an MFA in playwriting candidate at Columbia (’10) and an instructor in the university’s Undergraduate Writing Program. His works seen at Columbia include: For Homeostasis (Mikhael Garver); The Cunningham Variations (Onur Karaoglu); Hedda’s Room (co-directed with Kathryn Hamilton); One Fat Day in Babylon (Kathryn Hamilton), and The Box Man (Kathryn Hamilton). Recently, his short play The Gods Are Crazy Blind was performed at The Ruckus Theater in Chicago (Brian Ruby), as part of a festival of performances inspired by pop-music lyrics. In May his thesis project, Play America (Life is Short, Wear Your Party Pants), will be performed at DR2 as part of the 2010 Columbia Playwrights Series. |
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| Brian H Scott (Scenic Design) Currently he designing Antigone for SITI Company in NYC, Age of Iron for Classic Stage Company and Trojan Women for NYU’s Experimental Theatre Wing. Other Recent Projects include Titus Andronicus at The Court Theatre in Chicago. Tempest, Hamlet, Richard II and Richard III for Classic Stage Company in NYC. As a SITI Company member he designed lighting for Who Do You Think You Are, Radio Macbeth, Hotel Cassioepia(Henry Hewes Design Award Nomination), Death and the Ploughman, bobrauschenbergamerica(Henry Hewes Design Award 2004), War of the Worlds Radio Play and Systems/Layers. He has designed lighting for Dead Man’s Cell Phone for Playwrights Horizons, Songs from an Unmade Bed with NYTW, The Importance of Being Earnest at Arena Stage. Macbeth, Death of a Salesman in Baton Rouge, La. With Rude Mechanicals, he has designed Method Gun, How Late It Was How Late, Lipstick Traces, MatchPlay, Cherrywood and Get Your War On. |
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| Lisa Renee Jordan (Costume Design) credits include: Boy in the Bathroom, Castronauts, and Suicide, Anyone? (Off-Broadway); The Witching Hour, and Triangle (Williamstown Theatre Festival); Neglect, and Thicker than Water (Ensemble Studio Theatre); Twelfth Night, Over the Line, Atomic Farmgirl, Freedom, Hero, Justice, (Drilling CompaNY,); Safe Home, Dr. Faustus: Occult Remix, Collected Works of Billy the Kid, Uncle Vanya, A Dream Play, Eccentricities of a Nightingale, The Seagull, Etymology of a Person, Girls Just Wanna Have Fund$: A Peddler’s Tale (Off-Off Broadway); My Fair Lady, The Underpants, Beauty& The Beast, (Regional Theatre), Ectospasms, Nights at the Circus (NYC Fringe Festival); The Tempest, Crazy for You, Bye Bye Birdie, Mother Courage, Our Town, Goodnight Desdemona, Good Morning Juliet, Urinetown, Fiddler on the Roof, The Potboiler, La Dispute, (Richard Perry Theatre). Assistant Design credits include Chita Rivera: the Dancer’s Life (Broadway); Bernarda Alba (Lincoln Center Theatre). She received her MFA in Costume Design from the Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama. |
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| Charles Foster (Lighting Design) Design credits include: Bob Lies (hERE), Surrender (Ohio), Dust (West Side Arts), The Front Page, Crimes of the Heart, Double Double, Lucy and the Conquest, Create Fate, The Blue Bird, Servant of Two Masters (Williamstown Theatre Festival); Laughing Wild (Huntington Theatre Co.); ATC 10x20 (Atlantic Theatre Company); She Said / She Says (National Tour); Subway Songs (National Tour); Surrender, Limitless Joy, The Comfort and Safety of Your Own Home, Orphan on God’s Highway, The Bomb (International Wow!); Mario and the Magician (Center for Contemporary Opera); The Alvin Ailey School (Pope Auditorium at Lincoln Center); The Expense of Spirit (Ohio Ice Factory); Vincent (Wings); I Google Myself, Bald Diva (Theatre Askew); The Error of Their Ways (hERE); The Trojan Women (Sarah Lawrence College); The Tempest, Fêtes de la Nuit (Columbia Univ); La Bohème (Bohème Opera NJ). Charles is entering into his seventh year as a designer for Lightswitch, where he has contributed to projects such as Say Goodnight Gracie, Lestat, Pirate Queen, Bye Bye Birdie, Dreamgirls, and the upcoming Spiderman |
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| Christian Frederickson (Sound Design) is a violist, composer, and sound designer living in Brooklyn, NY. Recent credits include: Age of Iron, An Oresteia, The Tempest, Romeo and Juliet (Classic Stage Co.); Antigone, with the SITI Co. (DTW); The Emperor Jones (Irish Rep.); 2009 National Playwrights Conference, The O'Neill Theater Center; The Fever Chart (The Public Theater); The Tempest (Actors Theatre of Louisville). Christian is a founding member of the band Rachel's with six albums on Quarterstick Records and has performed throughout North America, Europe and Asia. He collaborates frequently with the SITI Company and has recorded with Shannon Wright, Shipping News, and Mission of Burma. He is a graduate of the Peabody Conservatory and The Juilliard School, where he studied with Paul Coletti and Eugene Becker. www.myspace.com/christianfrederickson |
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| C. Andrew Bauer (Video Editing) is a freelance editor, motion graphic designer and video designer for the theater. Recent work includes Allen Ginsberg’s Kaddish, adapted for the stage by Donnie Mather (dir. Kim Weild, New York International Fringe Festival ‘09), Nick for Blessed Unrest (dir. Jessica Burr, Interart; undergroundzero Festival, PS 122) and Romeo and Juliet for the Young Company (dir. Tony Speciale, CSC). On Broadway, he was associate for imaging and projection design on 9 to 5: the Musical (dir. Joe Mantello, Marquis Theatre) and Fela! (dir. Bill T. Jones, Eugene O’Neill Theatre) and assistant projections coordinator on Lestat (dir. Robert Jess Roth, Palace Theater). Past work includes designing video for Milk-n-Honey for Lightbox Theater Company (dir. Ellen Beckerman, 3 Legged Dog, NYC; Ko Festival, Amherst College) and Vaclav Havel’s Temptation (dir. Zishan Urgulu, La Mama ETC). Andrew also edited and produced, Brooklyn Bound, a narrative feature that premiered at the 2004 Tribeca Film Festival. |
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| Lewis Merkin (American Sign Language Consultant) has had varied and eclectic careers, all connected with communication somehow. For 30 years his acting career has taken him all over the world. Broadway: original cast Children of a Lesser God (1979-1982); London: Equus (1981); 2 years with the National Theatre of the Deaf (1986-1988); Off-Broadway: On House WPA Theatre (1997), Epic Family Epic dir. Ain Gordon (2003, 2007), regional theaters and TV. He is the co-writer (with Drew Emery) of Language of One, a journey of a Deaf, Gay, Jewish architect which was produced initially in Seattle (1993) and subsequently produced at New York Deaf Theatre (1995) and the Australian Theatre of the Deaf (1999). As a consultant, he worked with Mary Louise Parker, Michael O'Keefe and Rosie Perez on Reckless. A second career is that of a public speaker/educator. For several years, Lewis worked for the AIDS Education for the Deaf program at GLAD in Los Angeles; helped organize the 2nd International Deaf & HIV conference at Asilomar, CA in 1990, and served on the board of the National Coalition on the Deaf Community and HIV, Inc. He also worked at Abused Deaf Women's Advocacy Services in Seattle, WA in the same capacity. He is also an American Sign Language interpreter with a national certification (CDI) from the Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf and currently serves as Member at Large on its Board of Directors. Lewis is a staff interpreter with the NYC Dept. of Education. |
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| Drew Sachs (American Sign Language Interpreter) is a certified sign language interpreter and a playwright. As a playwright, productions of Drew’s works include, Chris Squared produced by Boston Theater Marathon; Anya, a Borough Park Antigone and The Knock produced by The Drilling CompaNY; Stabbing O.J., a play focusing on the Anita Bryant scandal of the 70’s produced at Queens College as part of The College Plays that later went on to the Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Festival. His play, Who Are You Dancing With Now?, received honorable mention at the Kennedy Center Region II Playwriting Competition. The Three Rings of Carmen, a re-telling of Bizet’s opera Carmen, was commissioned and produced by the Lexington School for the Deaf in NY. His latest work, I Am Not Breakfast, tells of the experiences of a para-professional at an elementary school for the Deaf during the 1980’s, was workshopped in Saratoga, NY by the Epiphany Theater Co. He is currently working on A.K.A. Al Parker, based on the life of adult film star Al Parker. Drew received his M.F.A in playwriting from Carnegie Mellon University, his interpreting training at Gallaudet University and is a member of the Dramatist Guild. |
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| Caroline Burrow (American Sign Language Interpreter) is a long-time fan of both the theater and American Sign Language. She is a graduate of the Circle in the Square Theater School and the LaGuardia Community College Interpreter Education Program, both here in NYC. Caroline is thrilled to have had the opportunity to lend her hands to this production.
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| Heather Paradise (American Sign Language Interpreter) has a B.F.A. in Theatre from Syracuse University
and is a graduate of the Laguardia Community College ASL/English Interpreting Program. She has been involved in many productions both onstage as an actor and offstage as an interpreter. She is thrilled
to be a part of Fetes de la Nuit.
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| Stephen J Elms (Marketing Advisor) is currently working as a freelance graphic designer and marketing consultant. In recent years, Stephen has worked for The Walt Disney Company's theatrical division as a marketing administrator where he oversaw the advertising and marketing strategies for the Broadway productions of The Lion King, Mary Poppins, and The Little Mermaid. As an advertising account executive at Serino Coyne he worked with clients that included the Tony Award® winning productions Monty Python's Spamalot, South Pacific, and Legally Blonde, and institutions such as Lincoln Center Theater. Prior to working in marketing he was as an IATSE stagehand on a varied number of productions both on and off Broadway. Select Productions Credits — Off-Broadway: The Mineola Twins, Harrah At Last, Give Me Your Answer Do, The Donkey Show. Broadway: RENT, Dame Edna: The Royal Tour, Riverdance On Broadway, Noises Off, Elton John & Tim Rice’s Aida. Stephen holds a B.F.A. in Lighting Design from the School of Design and Production at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and a M.F.A. in Producing and Theatre Management from Columbia University’s School of the Arts. |
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| Victoria Flores (Stage Manager) is a New York based Director and Stage Manager with a BFA from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. Directing credits include A Class Act, The Emperor's New Clothes, A Year With Frog And Toad (Cape Cod Repertory Theatre), The Dumbwaiter, The Raven, and Flowers (NYU Tisch). NYC Stage management credits include If You Give A Pig A Party (Manhattan Children's Theatre), Death By Vaudeville (Parkside Lounge), Portraiture (440 Studios). Regional credits include My Fair Lady(w/ Ms. Weild), Dirty Blonde,Ragtime, Fifth of July, Look Homeward Angel, Steel Pier, and Blithe Spirit(Cape Rep). |
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| Dave Polato (Technical Artist) is the technical artist for the TEAM [Theatre of the Emerging American Moment] and just wrapped up a European tour of their latest show, ‘Architecting’. Recently he also toured with the SITI Company with ‘Under Construction’ and ‘Who Do You Think You Are?’ Dave is very excited to be back in New York and have the opportunity to work on another Chuck Mee show.
New York: ‘Othello’ (dir. Peter Sellars, The Public), ‘Blasted’ (Soho Rep), ‘The Conscientious Objector’ (Keen), ‘The Screwtape Letters’ (FPA), ‘The Bacchae’ workshop (dir. Joanne Akalitis, The Public), ‘365 Plays/365 Days’ (The Public), ‘El Conquistador’ (NYTW), ‘Bone Portraits’ (Stillpoint Prod), ‘Children of a Lesser God’ (Keen)
Regional: Dorset Theatre Festival, O’Neill Playwrights & Cabaret Festivals.
Next up, Dave will be working with the The Play Company, stage managing their production of ‘Enjoy’ at 59 E 59. He is also continuing to work with the TEAM in developing ‘Mission Drift’. Training: University of Rochester International Theatre Program, McCarter Theatre Center. |
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| Jamie Forshaw (Producer/General Manager) is currently the Production and Programming Manager at Park Avenue Armory. Here he has overseen the critically acclaimed productions of Die Soldaten, Les Ephemeres and Boris Godunov. He also oversaw and managed the groundbreaking multi-award winning installation by Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto, anthropodino, which created an environment which encompassed the whole of the Armory’s Wade Thompson Drill Hall. In London, UK, Jamie worked with Cameron Mackintosh for three years on the redevelopment and refurbishment of his theatres – including the new build, Stephen Sondheim Theatre – and following this, spent two years with Disney Theatrical Productions, working closely with its President, Thomas Schumacher, on the London production of Mary Poppins. Associate Producer on the West End Award Winning revival of Beautiful Thing. Jamie holds an MFA from Columbia University in Theatre Management & Producing |
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| David Gibbs (Press Representative/DARR Publicity) Clients and shows include The Ohio Theatre’s Ice Factory Festival, Soho Think Tank, Clubbed Thumb, La MaMa, PTP/NYC, Company XIV, The Amoralists, Rude Mechanicals, The Queen’s Company, White Horse Theater Co., Hipgnosis Theatre Co., Cirque Jacqueline, The Second Tosca, Zombie, Dirt and Creation. David has publicized shows at the Atlantic Theater, The Ohio, Walkerspace, The Flea, PS 122, Playwrights Horizons, Cherry Lane, HERE, The Town Hall, The Theatres at 45 Bleecker, The Chocolate Factory & the NY Int’l Fringe Festival. www.darrpublicity.com |
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| Jill Usdan (documentarian/photographer) is an actress and photographer. She graduated from Barnard College in May 2009 with a BA in theatre and as the recipient of the Kenneth Janes Theatre Prize. She played multiple roles in a workshop of Testosterone by Hal Akerman, with James Naughton and in November she was seen as the Grapefruit Princess and Queen Isabella in Polybe + Seats’ fall production of Granada at the Access Theatre in SoHo. Most recently she played Mia in Aporia Theatre Company’s production of Bare Naked Drama. As a photographer Jill does publicity and production photos for theatre as well as headshots for actors and dancers. To see more of Jill’s work, visit www.photoblog.com/spudking |
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| Oriol Muñoz (sound operator) is an audio engineer who graduated from The Institute of Audio Research in New York. Born and raised in Barcelona, he has worked with sound in many forms — creating audio-visual installation, “The Abys,” and performing with his electronic music band l´ampersand in Barcelona, and programming and designing sound for theatre shows like “Escoltar Russinyol,” an homage to the Catalan poet and bohemian Santiago Russinyol. In New York, he continues to pursue his passion for sound and music in different fields, as a sound operator for the theatre shows “Kadish” and “A Show of Force,” and also as the sound designer and editor for the film “The Luckiest Girl on the Lower East Side.” Most recently he has recorded and mixed at HotSound Studio with Latin Jazz musician Greg Diamond.
www.abisme.com/lampersand
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Nova Landaeus |
| Tango Consultant | Mariana Parma | |
| Film Consultant | Ismael Ramirez | |
| Master Electrician | Dani Clifford | |
| Sound Operator | Oriol Munoz | |
| Technical Director | Megan Caplan | |
| Assistant Lighting Designer | Dani Clifford | |
| Assistant Costume Designer | Camilla Chuvarsky | |
| Milliner | Cigmond | |
| Camilla Chuvarsky | ||
| Draper | Stephanie A. Cook | |
| Wardrobe Mistress | Ann Korff |